FOREWORD JOB COHEN 11PREFACE 150 ROMANS ON THE AMSTEL 161100 THE CITY SEAL 201105 WOLFGER 231225 THE BLACKSMITH ON NIEUWENDIJK 251275 THE TOLL PRIVILEGE OF FLORIS V 281280 THE CASTLE OF AEMSTEL 311300 CHARTER AND RIGHT 351310 THE HERON FOREST 371342 THE LATIN SCHOOL 391345 THE MIRACLE 411390 CARTHUSIANS 461414 SAINT LUCIA’S MONASTERY 481421 THE GREAT FIRE OF 1421 511460 THE FRIARS MINOR 561488 THE EARLY YEARS OF THE WAAG 581489 MAXIMILIAN SELLS HIS CROWN 611508 AMSTERDAM REPELS AN ATTACK BY GELRE 661515 JACOB CORNELIS VAN OOSTSANEN 681529 REINOUD OF BREDERODE GAMBLES AWAY HIS LANDS 711531 WOMEN DEFEND SACRED GROUND 731542 DANCING WITH THE DEVIL 801573 WOMEN SPYING FOR THE GEUZEN 831573 ALVA DEPARTS 861578 BAERDESEN SEIZES POWER 891578 THE CONTRABAND OF CORNELIS BAM 931585 ELISABETH BAS 961590 THE FIRST DIAMOND MERCHANTS 991602 ISAAC LE MAIRE OPPOSES THE VOC 1021611 “THE FILTHY FOLK” 1061608 SAMUEL PALLACHE SETTLES IN AMSTERDAM 1091647 ELEPHANT FALLS THROUGH BRIDGE 1111650 REMBRANDT’S BLACK NEIGHBOURS 1141656 THE STRUGGLE FOR GHANA LOPES 1171660 AMSTERDAM ACQUIRES URK 1201672 PANIC AND FEAR 1231675 DEDICATION OF THE ESNOGA 1271682 SURINAMESE KINGS 1311686 THE WORLD’S FIRST YIDDISH NEWSPAPER 1331690 ESCAPED FROM FRENCH GALLEYS 1361696 A KINGFISHER MEDAL 1391714 AN ARMENIAN QUARREL 1421718 THE REAL JACO 1451746 “NEFARIOUS DECEPTIONS” 1481754 A BLACK NEW YORKER IN THE JORDAAN 1521760 ABANDONED SLAVES 1551764 GREEK AMSTERDAMMERS FOUND A CHURCH 1581764 POULTRY DEALER DIES A SODOMITE 1611766 MOZART CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY 1641780 INNKEEPERS FROM SURINAME 1671782 HIJACKING OF A SHIP ON THE HAARLEMMERMEER 1701787 CAPTAIN PIETER CLOCKENER RESIGNS 1731793 CHINESE SAILORS 1771813 COSSACKS CHASE AWAY THE FRENCH 1791816 JOHAN WILMS COMPOSES THE NATIONAL ANTHEM 1831840 CHIMNEYSWEEPS 1891848 HOP, HOP, HOP! HANG THE BURGOMASTER! 1941858 ASSAULT IN THE SCOTTISH MISSION CHURCH 1971860 ‘JAPPANEZE’ VISIT AMSTERDAM FOR THE FIRST TIME 2021873 SPIRITS AT HENDRIK JAN SCHIMMEL’S HOUSE 2051883 “A DISPLAY OF HUMAN FLESH” 2071885 BATTLE IN CAFÉ ZINCKEN 2111892 BEDOUINS ON THE WEESPERZIJDE 2141892 THE TOWN HALL OF NIEUWER-AMSTEL 2201900 A FRISIAN WOMAN IN ATJEHSTRAAT 2221911 CHINESE CHARACTERS 2251914 BELGIAN REFUGEES 2291921 THE TRAITOR OF SLOTEN 2331921 THE FIRST AJAX-FEYENOORD 2371926 SS KARADENIZ 2421932 THE GREAT RENT STRIKE 2461933 EXIL-ARTISTS 2501936 ‘NEGRO CABARETS’ 2541939 RAPENBURGERSTRAAT 2581940 THE “THIRD FIVE” IN TIME OF WAR 2611943 WOMEN ON THE TRAM 2641944 JAAP KNOL PREVENTS DEPORTATION OF SINTI AND ROMA 2681944 KEESJE BRIJDE 2711945 LIBERATION CELEBRATIONS 2731945 SURINAMESE SISTERS 2771950 MOLUCCAN SAILORS 2801966 STRESS IN THE FLAT 2831967 HAI IN THE RAI 2871967 TIMIDLY OUT OF THE CLOSET 2901971 THE LAST BEGUINE DIES 2941974 DRUGS DEN IN SPUISTRAAT 2971977 DANCING AT JANSEN 3001977 A WEDDING AND A SHOOTING 3031980 TANKS IN EERSTE CONSTANTIJN HUYGENSSTRAAT 3071986 THE RECOVERY OF ZEEDIJK 3112022 WATER, BEER AND GIN FROM WEESP 316'Amsterdam 750 Years' tells the city’s history as it has never been told before. Through hundreds of stories – about unknown Amsterdammers, remarkable places, and the many people who passed through the city – it reveals a vibrant and complex past. Migrants, traders, scientists, church ministers, slum landlords, laborers, scavengers, and capitalists are brought to life. This isn’t a history of the great white men with starched white collars. Instead it is about Rembrandt’s Black neighbors, the construction of the Greek Orthodox church, the day an elephant arrived in the city, the battle between socialists and police in Café Zincken, and how immigrants from the former Dutch East Indies brought rock ‘n’ roll to the Geuzenveld neighborhood in the 1950s.“So much history, so many stories, so many lives: Our Amsterdam is the city’s most exciting treasure trove.” – Geert Mak